Cowboys Fans, let me explain to you about my week.  On Friday last week I headed to Philly to enjoy the atmos­phere that sur­rounded the Cowboys/​Eagles game.  Today, I was poised to be dri­ving back to Georgia forced to lis­ten to the ‘Boys game on Sirius Radio.  Until I woke up this morn­ing to hit the road and saw that my wife’s car had been bro­ken into.  Turns out we have to stay here in Baltimore until tomor­row morn­ing, thus allow­ing me to watch the game at the local restau­rant.  It’s a ter­ri­ble chain of events but I’m excited to watch the game at least.

Now to the Game… Green bay poses a sig­nif­i­cant threat to us.  It isn’t an easy game, it’s a bat­tle between a tal­ented team deceiv­ing oppo­nents with a 4–4 mask.  This offense has the poten­tial to be explo­sive, the defense has poten­tial to be game chang­ing, and spe­cial teams for this team can be well just spe­cial.  Fortunately for us, we still have a chance.  You see for the all the poten­tial the Packers have, there is also real­ity.  The real­ity is sim­ply that Green Bay hasn’t per­formed up to expec­ta­tions.  Aaron Rodgers can’t stay on his feet and the defense seems to get beat at the most inop­por­tune times.

So with­out fur­ther intro­duc­tion we’ll eval­u­ate this weeks Keys to the Game:

1)   Control the Line: This means stop­ping the run.  There shouldn’t be any big gains from the run­ning backs.  The line­back­ers need to play with inten­sity and pride, this is a state­ment game!

2)   Get to Rodgers– This is a weekly “Key” but it is still impor­tant.  Rodgers can make plays, but not if he’s on the ground.  Our defense has to have it’s best rush on this week.

3)   Make Plays in the Secondary– We’ll need an early pick to make Rodgers cau­tious.  If we can get this, this game could be over early.

4)  Establish a Run– Don’t make Tony Romo beat these Packers.  Allow Marion, Felix, and Tashard to estab­lish the run and open up play action and the pass.  If this hap­pens it could be a good day for this offense.

5)  Double Move– Send Austin on routes that he can uti­lize his speed, accel­er­a­tion, and elu­sive­ness.  If he can cre­ate dis­tance like he did on the dou­ble move last week against the Eagles, big gains can follow.

Predicted Gameballs and Notables:

Demarcus Ware– I think DeMarcus gets 2 sacks on Rodgers today.

Marion Barber– Barber rushes for 80 yards and 1 touch­down, but it’s his abil­ity to con­trol the clock that gets him this weeks Gameball

Notable: I expect Roy Williams and Miles Austin to com­bine for 150 yards and 2 touch­downs this week

Game Prediction:

Dal– 28 GB– 13